Threshold vs Subdetection - What's the difference?
threshold | subdetection |
The bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
(by extension) An entrance
The start of the landing area of a runway
(engineering) The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit.
The wage or salary at which income tax becomes due
The outset of an action or project
The point where one mentally or physically is vulnerable in response to provocation or to particular things in general. As in emotions, stress, or pain.
The point of beginning or entry
(rare) Below the threshold of what can be detected.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 18, author=Jesse Mckinley, title=Tiny but Hungry, Moth May Peril California Crops, work=New York Times
, passage=“These pests can be there at subdetection levels for years if not decades,” said Mr. Carey, who worked on the medfly infestation. }}
As a noun threshold
is the bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.As an adjective subdetection is
(rare) below the threshold of what can be detected.threshold
English
(wikipedia threshold)Noun
(en noun)- From all the pressure my partner has been through lately, his emotion threshold has suddenly gotten pretty low these days. I can tell because he easily loses it when he is around people or hears about anything to do with his concerns.
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